WORK OF THE WEEK: Adam Buick, Journey Jar, 2023

Adam Buick
Journey Jar, 2023
Stoneware with inlaid porcelain path, Nuka glaze interior
Height: 68 cm / 2ft 3 in.

Ceramicist Adam Buick uses the jar form as a canvas to map observations from an ongoing study of his surroundings. Utilising stone and locally dug clay, Buick engages in a narrative of understanding landscape, and conveying a sense of place. His process is filled with unpredictability; using various glazes and firing temperatures allows for a metamorphosis to occur, just as we are changed and shaped by the world. Paths are a motif that Buick uses to represent his actual and metaphorical journeys through a place, believing that to understand landscape is to move through it and to give it context.

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Adam Buick
Large Intertidal Jar, 2023
Stoneware with Waun LLodi clay splash and a Nuka glaze
Height: 68 cm / 2ft 3 in.

Adam Buick
Massive Intertidal Jar, 2020
Stoneware with Waun LLodi clay splash and a Nuka glaze
Height: 85 cm / 2ft 9 ⅖ in.

In 2001, Adam Buick received his BA joint honours in archaeology and anthropology at Lampeter University, and subsequently attended the West Wales School of Art in Carmarthen in 2003. In 2017 Buick was granted the Creative Wales Award.

Adam Buick has exhibited internationally. Selected solo and group shows include Grounding, Ruthin Crafts Centre, Wales (2023), Atavism, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2019); Things of Beauty Growing, at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2018) and the Yale Center for British Art (2017); Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London and Ceramic Art London, RCA (2012). His work is held in several public and private collections including The British Museum; Crafts Council UK; Chatsworth House; Ceramic Review Award; The National Museum Cardiff; The British Academy, and the Arts Council of Wales. Adam Buick lives and works in Llanferran, Wales.

Adam Buick
Strata Jar, 2023
Stoneware with sgraffito and a white glaze
Height: 67 cm / 2ft 2 in.